Greensgrow Farms

Tomorrow final farmstand of the season! 10am-2pm Free Red Kuri, Jack-Be-Little pumpkins and Staymen apples Broccoli, Broccoli Raab, Peppers, mustard greens, okra, beets, radish, carrots, onions! ... Pay What You Can. Stay Well. Music at the farm by School of Rock Philadelphia at 1pm

This week is the last regular Saturday pay-what-you-can market - 10am -2pm Pumpkins and apples free this Saturday - Halloween day! We only take tricks, we have no sweet treats but School of Rock Philadelphia will have some treats at their midday youth concert. ... Come by our last farmstand, listen to some spooky tunes with the School of Rick fundraiser @ 1pm This fall farmstand is supported by PTSSD

All summer long we have been donating produce we grow to Elcompadrebarbacoa The People’s Kitchen Tonight we celebrated giving despite our own losses this year, by showing up to block party with free flowers Shepard’s Philly and free produce for the people ... Support our work making sure people are fed in fresh, nourishing ways this year! Greensgrow.org/donate

Come support internationally accomplished musicians who's careers have been put on hold during this pandemic, plus you get to experience their music surrounded by tropical plants in the greenhouse! If you can't join us in person, you can always come to the live stream! Link for tickets in the comments.

This year we received funding from Penn Treaty SSDto complete the installation of a native plant demonstration garden along our perimeter. Many of our native species of insects, reptiles and birds have been suffering a pandemic for decades. Some critters are endangered due to loss of native varieties that provide habitat and food source. We are all in this together! When we look to heal the world around us, we heal ourselves. All places from our stoop planters to suburban y...ards can serve as habitat and food. Together as more people choose native plants we become a network of better habitat across the city and the region. Greensgrow is committed to being a resource for education and native plant supply. This spring we worked with Good Host Plants (straight species selection) and Alexandra Grisanti (rendering and design) to realize a beautiful planting plan. In 2021 we will continue to increase our selection of locally propagated natives and educational signage. We plan to begin installing this project in the coming weeks and are looking for volunteers who want to assist with the building, prep work and planting. Sign-up for our volunteer newsletter to receive updates on opportunities to come learn and lend a hand

Did you hear the music last weekend and want to come in for the concert? You can! But a ticket for October 24th!

Pumpkin Pop-Open tomorrow with fancy gourds, hand pumpkins, small carvers ... all pay-what-you-can! perennials still 25% off mums in bloom small selection of fall annuals for your window boxes

Vote today! If everyone here votes just once today you could help us win $15,000 to improve green space and food access in Philadelphia! https://www.phillymag.com/health-hero-2020/

Vote for Meg today to help us win 15,000 Vote for Meg today on behalf of Ping Vote for Meg tomorrow (last day) on behalf of Milkshake Vote for Meg and also make sure to cast your vote this fall https://www.phillymag.com/health-hero-2020/ Once upon a time Ping gave me a hug around my leg, most mornings that I feed milkshake he comes barreling through my legs. Vote for me as a health hero because we are all connected through this beautiful ecosystem and we all need to come together to lift up the systems in our world that support our collective health. #greensgrow #urbanfarming #healthhero #phillymag

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Come pick out some pumpkins this weekend. Carving, fancy, blue doll, jack-be-little, caspirita, field day. Suggested pricing, pay what you can! This Saturday October 3rd | 10am -4pm ... at our Kensington location | 2501 East Cumberland Ave. See more

Hi Friends of The Farm: Meg here, writing to you directly. Greensgrow feels like this, at exactly this time of year, every year. This is my third fall on the farm (pic taken in 2018)- each one wildly different in approach, yet it’s the time that all living things feel like they have expended most of their stored energy. ... I read this article (slide 2) from the beginning of Greensgrow, two years into Mary’s original project where she mentions the resilience she develops lying in a ditch on this huge site by herself trying to fix a broken pump as it filled the ditch alongside her tears. I felt her every word, like I was inhabiting her skin. It’s the connection of land that I actually inhabit with her as it holds all the memories. The resilience she built is now the resilience I develop to lead this place forward. So many hands have worked this land and we have all laid in that ditch metaphorically at Greensgrow and cried. This place bestows great beauty, at the same time it is filled with losses. It’s the the lifecycle and it all hangs in balance. I stepped up to direct a vision forward at the beginning of 2019. The organization was handed to me in very fragile form. I bit my lip about the fragility and moved forward. I learned to plug all the holes quickly, but over the past two years I’ve really built a confidence in my own sense of leadership while navigating in the unknown, it’s like I had a practice year before the impacts of COVID-19. The decisions I made this year were enacted to preserve the health of our community, to keep staff safe and to ensure that the organization did not go under. Our approach to the fall and winter come through knowledge I have accumulated in deep study of our finances and the patterns of our financial history. Greensgrow will be here in our future. Over the next few months we have a super skeleton staff, but we stay committed to a couple of pop-ups and I will tell you a little more about myself alongside my vision to keep you all connected to the ways we are evolving. Follow our stories to learn more of the raw reality of the farm, as we continue to move through the unknown of 2020. Stay Well. Meg